Sample-card.



B. F. STENZ.

SAMPLE CARD.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. I4, 9|6 1.923%3. l a Patented Aug. 7, 1917.

WITNESSES s en! BERNARD E. sTENz, or. NEW YORK, N. Y., AssiGNoR To SIMPLEX LITHOGRAPH COM- PANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OE NEW YORK.

SAMPLE-CARD.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 7, 1917.

Application led September 14, 1916. Serial No. 120,047.

To all evlwm t may concern; v

Be it known that I, BERNARD F. STENZ, a

citizen of the United States, and resident of New York city, borough of Manhattan, in

the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Sample-Card, of which the following 1s a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The present invention relates to sample.

cards adapted for use in the piece-goods art, and to display samples or replicas of samples of woven textile material suoli as ginghams, percales, silks and ribbons.

The obj'ect of the present invention is tol produce a sample card in which the sample surface shall be protected by an integrally formed raised guard surface.

A further object is to produce a samplecard in which the effect is produced of a sample displayed beneath an apertured mat and showing through the aperture whlle 1n fact the body portion and the panel in which the sample 1s displayed are all formed integrally.

A further object of the invention is to produce a sample card rovided with integrally formed depresse sample panels, the said panels having a sample surface within such recess below the surface of the body portion representing an embossed replica of a sample of textile fabric. 1

To the above ends, my invention consists of a sample card in which the ,body portion and a sample panel are formed integrally, having a guard raised above the sample panel and protecting the sample surface of such panel, and it further consists of a sample card having a body portion and asample panel depressed below the surface of the body portion and provided with a sample surface ina plane parallel 'to the surface of the body portion, such sample surface having an embossed replica of a sample of textile fabric. y

' My invention further consists of the sample card which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

A sample card embodying my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in whichl Figure 1 shows a front elevation of my improved sample card embodying a plurality of symmetrically arranged rectangular sample panels; p y

Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a modified form in which the sample panels are elliptical in shape;

Fig. 4 shows a modified form in which the sample panels are in the plane of the body portion but provided with an embossed marginal protecting guard extending beyond the front surface; and.

Fig. 5 shows a vertical section taken on the line 5 5 in Fig. 4.

It has been customary in manufacturing sample cards to provide a suitable backing upon which actual samples of textile materials are adhesively secured, and to cover the backing with a front piece or mat provided with apertures which when laid over my invention as heretofore stated is to imi.

tate a sample card, so formed, by the use of a single piece of material only and without the use of actual textile samples.

As shown in Fig. 1, the improved sample card consists of a body portion 1, which is provided with a sample panel 2, there being in the illustrated embodiment ten of such sample panels, each of which has a sample surface displaying a replica of textile fabric different from all the others.

The sample panels 2 are formed integrally with the bodyportion l by embossing dies and as .shown in Figs. 1 and 2 they are depressed below the surface of the body portion 1, there being formed a distinct marginal edge 3 about the recess or panel. Preferably the front surface of the panels 2 will be in a plane parallel to the front face of the body portion 1, and this surface, which I designate the sample surface of the panel, will be embossed to represent a sample' of textile' fabric as at 5, showing different patterns. `As shown in Fig. 3, the panels may be elliptical in form.

The completed sample card will have the effect of samples of actual fabric adhesively secured to a back piece and covered by a mat provided with openings, but as the ice whole is formed of one integral piece of material preferably cardboard suitable for the purpose, there will be a considerable saving as ompared with the old style-of sample car It is to be noted that by formin the sample surface of the panel vbelow the ody portion of the card/it will be protected from irubbingand the printed and embossed samples'will not become marred and obliterated. In Figs. 4 and 5 practically the same result is accomplished as in the form described.

In this form of, the device the sample panels 6 are formed by embossing and printing, but the are in the same plane as the body -portion and a marginal bead or rib 8 is embossed above the surface of the body portion 7 on one side which provides a well defined edge 9 surrounding the panel, and at the same time adords protectection for the sample surface of the panel. Y

Having thus described my' invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by'Letters Patent:

A sample card comprising a body and a sample panel formed integrally, sald panel having a sample surface plc of textile material, e bod sample panel and sample sur ace being formed by embos'sin and the sample surface of the panel being gelow the upper surface representing a samt portion,

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-of the body portion and the body portion 

